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How to make a link to a jpg picture download it?

Asked by: GuanoFun

Hello,
I'm getting a lot of new problems today, so here is my next question, how do i forca browser to save a jpg picture from a link instead of automatically opening it in the browser itself?

The best I could find is this link: http://codingforums.com/archive/index.php?t-34531.html, but It doesn't work. Any good suggestions how to do it?

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2008-02-08 at 06:52:07ID23147851
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Answers

 

by: Maverick_CoolPosted on 2008-02-08 at 06:57:23ID: 20850706

i had already answered a similar type in experts. first thing tell is this link a direct link  i mean in html u have the url path or not.

 

by: Maverick_CoolPosted on 2008-02-08 at 06:59:07ID: 20850730

please refer to my answere and this question in below URL of EE:
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Programming/Languages/Scripting/JavaScript/Q_23027377.html

 

by: GuanoFunPosted on 2008-02-08 at 07:03:33ID: 20850779

Yes, I have multiple logotips stored in JPG, GIF and other formats wich link directly to them. They are accually op the same server just in a /image/ directoy.

But as normaly browser acts when you click an image link - it opens in browser first. I want a person not needing to right-click and choose save target as, but with normal left-click to have act as it would have chosen save-targe-as already.

Basically, the useronly has to choose where to save the file if he wants to. I dont want to automatically download anything for him in any way, I just want to make things easier for the user ;)

 

by: Maverick_CoolPosted on 2008-02-08 at 07:07:49ID: 20850835

the above url has all the answere's

 

by: GuanoFunPosted on 2008-02-08 at 07:12:46ID: 20850883

I read that, thanx, but i guess that is asp programming language which im totally not familiar with ... can you maybe axplain me in more detail how i can get that on my server and what to do with it?

I guess i know something just in php, css and javascript :(

 

by: Maverick_CoolPosted on 2008-02-08 at 07:18:30ID: 20850946

i am not good at php... sorry

 

by: GuanoFunPosted on 2008-02-08 at 07:25:57ID: 20851048

hmm... maybe you can explain what do with the asp script then?

Raised points to 250, since I see it won't be as easy as I though

 

by: Maverick_CoolPosted on 2008-02-08 at 07:34:33ID: 20851141

-------This   creates a file object and gets all its content as binary input
 Set oStream = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Stream")
                oStream.Open
                   
                oStream.Type = 1
                oStream.LoadFromFile(path)
 -----------------------------------------------------------
                Response.Clear()

------------Setting the reponse buffer so what the whole is downloaded properly------------
                Response.Buffer = true
               
 -----telling the browser/response that content could be anything , the browser should interpet depending on file extension.In your case u can set Jepg see belloe commented code:
//response.ContentType ="image/jpeg"

                Response.ContentType = "whatever"
---------------------
adding the header for download telling rhe browser the  file should considered as attachment not as inline hence it show a save dialog, also i specify the the name as which it should be stored
                Response.AddHeader "content-disposition","attachment; filename=fname.ext"
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
                end select

---------------             reading file object data to response writer which will send the data to browser  
                Response.BinaryWrite oStream.Read
 
-----------clearing all objects/file objects used.....
                oStream.Close : Set oStream = Nothing

 

by: mplungjanPosted on 2008-02-08 at 08:26:50ID: 20851612

<a href="saveImage.php?url=image1.jpg">Save image</a>

and in php:

<?php
$url = addslashes($_GET["url"]);
header('Content-type: content-type:octet-stream');
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="'.$url.'"');
readfile('../images/'.$url);
?>
                                              
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by: GuanoFunPosted on 2008-02-08 at 08:49:56ID: 20851851

WoW
thanks a lot, the best solution es really the easiest. works just perfect!

/cheer

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